Was talking to my only co-worker who ever played D&D today about how we played. I am still amazed at how common mini’s were in the “olden days” before I started playing. I’ve always heard of the world and the charactes and the like existing completely in the players’ imagination and then I hear about battlemaps, dwarvenforge, mini’s and so on.
So, how do all of you out there play?
for me it was all about the imagination, mini’s were never used until I started with D&D Encounters. No mapping, no pawns, or symbols or anything like that. Now my player’s did have a guy who would attempt to map out what I was telling them … it was always fun to compare maps at the end of the adventure … but nothing for minis are to see how far the creatures where and the like.
Maybe I just played weird.
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I've played with minis almost since I started playing D&D, back in the 70s.
I find it deoends on the system these days, back in the early days it was fun/cool to have a nicely painted figure, but not essential.
With 4th ed and Star Wars Saga I found it useful in combat, but pathfinder and FFg star wars doesnt need it at all, theatre of the mind!!
I started playing with nothing but the imagination from Basic through 2nd Edition. We didn't even map anything.
Since I started up with my current group playing 3.5 we mostly use imagination until we get into battles or are dungeoncrawling.
Since I had the HeroQuest game before D&D, and my first D&D boxed set came with cardboard folding minis, I tended to use them pretty regularly, however it was still pretty much just to keep track of where everyone was. I don't think we ever measured anything, or counted squares or anything like that.